Almost a week has passed since the election and either you’re done celebrating or commiserating. We now know that the chessboard of federal politics hasn’t change but we can all hope that somehow the next four years are more productive […]
Last week another round of incredulity went through the industry as another acquisition was announced. Munro Distributing, an electrical distributor in Fall River, MA with 12 locations who serviced electrical contractors and is active in the solar market and in the energy […]
Last week AD held its 2012 North American Meeting for its electrical division. 841 people were in attendance, including myself as Channel Marketing Group is a service provider to AD affiliates and manufacturers.During the 2 1/2 days there was much […]
Some industry tidbits ….Sonepar, according to a banking announcement, recently was the beneficiary of a euro private placement. Societe Generale and AXA were able to get “some” of their clients to invest / loan money to Sonepar. No word on […]
In last week’s Reading Roundup we shared some information from Graybar, WESCO, Sonepar and Codale. To start this week we’re sharing more info on WESCO and Graybar and adding in some Kirby Risk, Rexel, ABB/T&B and ElectricSmarts. Kirby Risk – […]
How about a little Reading Round-Up for the week … a collection of information we’ve found on some of the industries major players:WESCOWESCO announced it’s Q2 earnings last week. Some interesting points (from Zacks as well as the call and […]
Recently we’ve spoken with a number of distributors, manufacturers and some reps regarding their second half outlook. Unfortunately, it’s not anything to write home about.As many may remember from the last issue of Electrical Wholesaling, Herm Isenstein (DISC), wrote that […]
I’ve been debating for a month or so about whether I should write this posting or not but, as the continued dripping of economic data comes out and healthcare has been ruled “legal”, I thought “let’s give our readership the […]
Last week I had the opportunity to attend ABB’s Automation and Power World (this is a link to the show blog – overviews a number of the sessions) in Houston. Impressive event. Had over 5000 customers, 1000 sales partners, 500 workshops (including […]
Last week the NAED Annual was held in Washington DC and, while we’re sure that NAED will announce strong attendance, it seemed like a very quiet event…perhaps because the hotel is a little spreadout, perhaps because many meetings took place […]
David Gordon
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